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Season 17 Episode 2 | 1m 00s

WEST celebrates the continuum of heritage and the handmade, taking inspiration from the landscape, history and culture of the American West. Working across cowboy arts, Hawaiian indigenous practices, and Native American handwork, the artists show how traditional craft can be revived, reworked and reinvented in the art of today.

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Hawaiian cordage and knotting and feather standards in 'Iolani Palace
Bisa Butler's first artistic influences
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Community at the Institute of American Indian Arts
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